Peter Lynch Quotes

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• Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate corrections, than has been lost in corrections themselves.

  Peter Lynch

  Trying, Lost, More Money

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• When stocks are attractive, you buy them. Sure, they can go lower. I've bought stocks at $12 that went to $2, but then they later went to $30. You just don't know when you can find the bottom.

  Peter Lynch

  Buying, Attractive, Bottom

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• The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic.

  Peter Lynch

  Pain, Mistake, Humility

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

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• The stock market really isn't a gamble, as long as you pick good companies that you think will do well, and not just because of the stock price.

  Peter Lynch

  Thinking, Long, Good Company

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.32, Simon and Schuster

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• In this business if you're good, you're right six times out of ten. You're never going to be right nine times out of ten.

  Peter Lynch

  Luck, Investing, Nine

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• You only need a few good stocks in your lifetime. I mean how many times do you need a stock to go up ten-fold to make a lot of money? Not a lot.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Needs, Lifetime

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• There is always something to worry about. Avoid weekend thinking and ignoring the latest dire predictions of the newscasters. Sell a stock because the company's fundamentals deteriorate, not because the sky is falling.

  Peter Lynch

  Fall, Weekend, Thinking

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• Never invest in a company without understanding its finances. The biggest losses in stocks come from companies with poor balance sheets.

  Peter Lynch

  Loss, Understanding, Balance

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone has the brainpower to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach. If you are susceptible to selling everything in a panic, you ought to avoid stocks and mutual funds altogether.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing, Panic, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• A price drop in a good stock is only a tragedy if you sell at that price and never buy more. To me, a price drop is an opportunity to load up on bargains from among your worst performers and your laggards that show promise. If you can't convince yourself "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a buyer" and banish forever the fatal thought "When I'm down 25 percent, I'm a seller," then you'll never make a decent profit in stocks.

  Peter Lynch

  Opportunity, Forever, Promise

  "One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market". Book by Peter Lynch and John Rothchild, 1989.

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• It's human nature to keep doing something as long as it's pleasurable and you can succeed at it, which is why the world population continues to double every 40 years.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Long, Population

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• What makes stocks valuable in the long run isn't the market. It's the profitability of the shares in the companies you own. As corporate profits increase, corporations become more valuable and sooner or later, their shares will sell for a higher price.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Long, Investing

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• Charts are great for predicting the past.

  Peter Lynch

  Past, Predicting

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• Know what you own, and know why you own it.

  Peter Lynch

  Money, Intelligent, Investing

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• Everyone has the brain power to make money in stocks. Not everyone has the stomach.

  Peter Lynch

  Investing Money, Brain, Making Money

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.306, Simon and Schuster

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• During the Gold Rush, most would-be miners lost money, but people who sold them picks, shovels, tents and blue-jeans (Levi Strauss) made a nice profit.

  Peter Lynch

  Nice, Blue, Jeans

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• Just because you buy a stock and it goes up does not mean you are right. Just because you buy a stock and it goes down does not mean you are wrong.

  Peter Lynch

  Mean, Doe, Investing

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• When management owns stock, then rewarding the shareholders becomes a first priority, whereas when management simply collects a paycheck, then increasing salaries becomes a first priority.

  Peter Lynch

  Priorities, Salary, Firsts

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.143, Simon and Schuster

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• Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.

  Peter Lynch

  Your Side, Investing, Sides

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• If you spend more than 13 minutes analyzing economic and market forecasts, you've wasted 10 minutes

  Peter Lynch

  Risk, Analyzing, Management

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• Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

  Peter Lynch

  Horse, Wall, Thinking

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• If you're prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won't get bored.

  Peter Lynch

  Inspirational, Money, Intelligent

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• Go for a business that any idiot can run - because sooner or later, any idiot probably is going to run it.

  Peter Lynch

  Running, Business, Intelligent

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• I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'

  Peter Lynch

  Office, Wish, More Time

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• The Rule of 72 is useful in determining how fast money will grow. Take the annual return from any investment, expressed as a percentage, and divide it into 72. The result is the number of years it will take to double your money.

  Peter Lynch

  Years, Numbers, Return

  Peter Lynch (2012). “Beating the Street”, p.108, Simon and Schuster

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